9 tracks by The Ginger Twins

1.   Yet Again
2.   Derivative
3.   The Model Citizen
4.   True Regret
5.   The Lesson 
6.   Something Amiss
7.   Obsoletion
8.   Shattering Me
9.   A Shimmer in the Darkness

Vacancy

Song by The Ginger Twins
vocals/synths - Brian Beethoven

Lyrics:
A hard, hard lesson to learn
A crossroads for you and me
What a hard, hard lesson to learn
Facing down reality
Don’t stop, don’t look back
Wait for it, brace for it
Don’t stop, don’t look back
Wait for it, brace for it
A hard, hard lesson to learn
A crossroads for you and me
What a hard, hard lesson to learn
Facing down adversity
Don’t stop, don’t look back
Wait for it, brace for it
Don’t stop, don’t look back
Wait for it, brace for it
A hard, hard lesson to learn
A crossroads for you and me
What a hard, hard lesson to learn
Facing down reality
Don’t stop, don’t look back
Wait for it, brace for it
Don’t stop, don’t look back
Wait for it, brace for it

The Lesson

Song by The Ginger Twins….
vocals/synths - Brian Beethoven….

Lyrics:
Free from independent thought
Loved only by the things you’ve bought
Trained since my life began
To be the model citizen
To be the model citizen
The model citizen
Gone is any choice to make
Free from any risk to take
Programmed and retrained again
To be the model citizen
To be the model citizen
The model citizen

The Model Citizen

Song by The Ginger Twins…
vocals/synths - Brian Beethoven…

Lyrics:
Brand new initiative
Somewhat prohibitive
Vulgar and primitive
Yet still derivative
Like a dog fears thunder
The thumb I’m under
Brand new initiative
Somewhat prohibitive
Vulgar and primitive
Yet still derivative
I once knew what I wanted
I pursued what I wanted
Vulgar and primitive
Yet still derivative
Like endless hunger
The spell I’m under
I once knew what I wanted
I pursued what I wanted
Vulgar and primitive
Yet still derivative

Derivative

Song by The Ginger Twins
vocals/synths - Brian Beethoven

Lyrics:
True regret
In this life
True regret
In this…
She lies awake at night
Haunted by that day
The price forever pay
Alive but dead inside
True regret
In this life
True regret
In this…
Greeted by the face of truth
Can’t deny mistakes we’ve made
Defined by careless youth
Now until the grave
True regret
In this life
True regret
In this…

True Regret

Song by the Ginger Twins
vocals/synths - Brian Beethoven

Lyrics:
Standing, facing the firing line
Cold hearts without a care I find
Climbing, racing a ticking clock
Path blocked – can’t reach the mountaintop 
Yet again
Yet again
Yet again
Yet again and again and the sky grows dim
I am defeated again
I have retreated again
I am mistreated again
I have retreated again
Mind racing with endless thoughts
Distant memories of love and loss
Staring down at the firing line
No resolution and a truce declined
Yet again
Yet again
Yet again
Yet again and again and the sky grows dim
I am defeated again
I have retreated again
I am mistreated again
I have retreated again
I am defeated again
I have retreated again
Yet again


Yet Again

The Avant Guardians are an enigmatic and unique collective of SoundCloud artists. This is their first release, (Alter the Algorhythm) completed in the summer of ‘25. [Stay tuned for future releases from this ever evolving collective.] Feel free to leave your thoughts and opinions, and if you are interested in being a part of future endeavours.



bhendricksen -  https://m.soundcloud.com/bhendricksen

Northfield Lenox - https://m.soundcloud.com/northfield-lenox

Petty_Vendetta - https://m.soundcloud.com/petty_vendetta

rabbitsquirrel - https://m.soundcloud.com/rabbitsquirrel

Yellow Salamand’r - https://m.soundcloud.com/acemulchfish

Alter The Algorythm

Written, performed, mixed & mastered by
André "pixelorb" Brandes © 2025

Image: pixabay.com (CC0 Creative Commons)

Instruments:
- TAL U-NO-LX
- E-phonic Invader 2
- Synapse "The Legend"
- Synapse Dune 3
- Full Bucket FB-7999
- Lennar Digital Sylenth 1
- FL-Studio Sytrus

Kyoto Night

The Horse Walks Backwards on a Violet Cloud is the original mix:

🖋️ Lyrics: 
I listen like a child to night, But the shadows know my name. Fatigue pours gently through the vents, Wrapping me in soft, invisible blame.
The horse walks backwards on a violet cloud. My eyes face the dream it left. She whispers through distant time zones now... And I keep still, in theft.
The table breathes beneath its gift, Unknown hands tie memory in bows. My name was said, half-broken, By a mirror that never knows.
The old man’s beard touches the past. I'm seated wrong, I'm waking slow. She trains in orchards long forgotten. I’m just the ache I never show. Light moves backwards, Through our unfinished sky.
I wrote none of this — But it’s mine, It’s mine.

🎧 For alternate versions — instrumental and the Arctic Mood edit — explore the full release on Bandcamp

Full Album on Bandcamp

The Horse Walks Backwards on a Violet Cloud

This instrumental track, crafted using an emulator of the legendary ARP 2600 synthesizer, delves into the unsettling notion of a world where machines gradually take over human skills, leaving our consciousness as the final remnant of what truly belongs to us.
In this sonic landscape—where analog layers merge with retro-futuristic textures—humanity quietly resists through its sensitivity, memory, and inner contradictions. While artificial intelligence may learn, simulate, and optimize... it does not feel. A machine cannot dream, doubt, or fall in love. Human consciousness is born from experience, shaped by memory and rooted in the body. And this elusive nuance lies at the heart of everything.
Inspired by the visions in 1999, Brave New World, THX1138, and 2001: A Space Odyssey, the track reflects an age where fiction slips into reality. But instead of sounding an alarm, "Conscience 2600" whispers a lucid realization: within the circuitry and the algorithms, there remains something that cannot be programmed—the intimate pulse of being

Conscience 2600

2600

Someone Else's Dream

Archetypical

solarfires

Deep in the jungle: moog--->soprano sax--->flute 

SELVATICO

The sax sounds are pinched from a fairly dreadful AI 'jazz' compilation, the rest from a 60s psychedelic album concerning the Zodiac.

I've been ionized, but I'm okay now

8-23-25 2 (high wire)

Authentic soundscapes of melody and noise....The Ginger Twins is an alternative music project by Philadelphia based musician Brian Beethoven.  Formed in 2023, The Ginger Twins produce songs with a varying blend of unique post-punk, dark wave and experimental electronic sounds. 


#darkwave #minimalsynth #alternative #postpunk #coldwave #experimental

The Lesson

The Ginger Twins

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